This post has been written by Audrey Versteegen from SEA’s Oxford Mapping Pilot Project team. Much of Audrey’s experience has been built working together with international communities to secure community land rights in the context of industrial plantation projects. She is trained in GIS and participatory mapping methods, as well Read more…
Between October 2018 and early 2019 we’re piloting a community mapping process that will result in a digital map of Oxford’s solidarity economy. As part of our mission to make the solidarity economy in the UK stronger, and to encourage more people to find out about it and support in Read more…
The Solidarity Economy Association joins fellow Oxford-based organisations Asylum Welcome and the Campaign to Close Campsfield & End All Immigration Detention in welcoming the Government’s decision to close Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre in Oxfordshire, as part of the Home Office’s response to the Stephen Shaw review. We also welcome Read more…
Wednesday 21 November 18:15 – 20:30 Makespace Oxford We’re incredibly excited to be hosting Shareable.net’s Tom Llewellyn, lifelong sharer, commoner, and storyteller, at a special event exploring how we can work together to meet our needs in Oxford, SEA’s hometown. Building upon Shareable’s years of experience covering the Read more…
The Solidarity Economy Association is a signatory to the following statement, which was originally published on the Global Justice Now website. To all those movements, activists and marginalised communities in Brazil who have woken up this morning to the nightmare of a Bolsonaro presidency, we send our solidarity Read more…
The latest article to be reposted on our Co-operation in Mesopotamia website is a report into several new co-operative projects that have been established in the region. This article was originally published by ANF English on 15 October 2018 and reposted on Co-operation in Mesopotamia’s website on 22 October Read more…
This article was originally published by Anca Voinea in the Co-op News Co-ops in Argentina can now connect with customers and other social and solidarity economy businesses through a free app. ESSApp, developed by open software co-operative GCOOP, maps co-operatives across the country. Under the motto “connecting solidarity”, Read more…
Fast Company reported exclusively this week on the launch of Inrupt, a new company that aims to take power from tech giants like Google and Facebook and put it back into our hands For some time now, Sir Tim Berners-Lee – the father of the World Wide Web Read more…
This article was first published in openDemocracy. Author Emily Kawano is a founder of the US Solidarity Economy Network. She served on the RIPESS (the Intercontinental Social Solidarity Economy Network) board for eight years, and co-directs Wellspring Cooperative. She has a PhD in economics from UMass, Amherst where she joined the Read more…
New insights into the history of the UK’s worker co-op movement have been revealed thanks to a project from the National Co-operative Archive in Manchester. The year-long project aimed to collate material relating to workers’ co-ops of the 1970s and 1990s – a particularly interesting time in the co-op movement’s Read more…